That was the scare, at least…but of course, silly press, it wasn’t the scary GOP that wants to draft our boys; it’s apparently someone else. Could that be…Charley Rangel? Hmmmm….?
Rangel Calls for Reinstating Military Draft
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4 Responses to “Weren’t REPUBLICANS Going to Reinstate the Draft?”
No shock here, but I think you’ve grossly misrepresented the real issues on this one.
It’s not about which party would want the draft or not.
It’s about our current military being too depleted and overused in Iraq to be as effective as we need them to be world wide.
It’s about wanting to try something new to actually make progress in Iraq instead of the stay the course approach of the last three years which has stayed the course of steady and consistent worsening.
gurufrisbee ~ Nov 20, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Well, yes and no; I haven’t misrepresented anything, only made a different point than you wanted to make, and about which you might well be right. My point wasn’t to debate the merits of the draft, but merely to suggest that the very thing Republicans were being hysterically (and incorrectly) accused of is the thing that now a Democrat indeed IS trying to do. That’s all.
Byron ~ Nov 20, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Hey, enough “great” ideas like this over the next two years will really help the dems lose everything they have gained recently…
Hefe ~ Nov 20, 2006 at 5:16 pm
In my opinion, By, you misrepresented by promoting a point that is far from (again, IMO) the most important point.
And it’s not necessarily incorrect to say the Republicans would have been pushing for the draft – it’s just totally moot now as the Republicans in congress don’t have the power to push for anything any more.
gurufrisbee ~ Nov 20, 2006 at 6:10 pm